Going into the finale of
"The Taste" Season 2,
Ludo Lefebvre had three team members left --
Marina Chung, Jeff Kawakami and
Louise Leonard -- to one cook on
Anthony Bourdain's team,
Lee Knoeppel. The other two chefs had no contestants remaining.

Marina made English muffin with quail egg, a pork belly and oyster spring roll and short ribs with kale for her three stages. Louise chose a fried quail egg, fried oyster po' boy and steak with red wine sauce and mushrooms. Lee decided on Parmesan flan with bacon and quail egg, crab cakes with corn aioli and wagyu strip steak with cauliflower puree. It all looked amazing, we don't know how the judges choose.

But choose they did. The third place cook was revealed as Lee Knoeppel, which brought audible gasps of disbelief from the audience. Were you surprised, viewers? He had the most gold stars on the season (6), though he did have two red stars.

The second place cook was Marina Chung and that means Louise Leonard is the winner of "The Taste" Season 2. She takes home the $100,000 prize and she says she's "over the moon, through the roof" about her victory.